zdb(8) manual page

Display options:

-b
	Display statistics regarding the number, size (logical, physical and allocated) and deduplication of blocks.
-c
	Verify the checksum of all metadata blocks while printing block statistics (see -b ). If specified multiple times, verify the checksums of all blocks.
-C
	Display information about the configuration. If specified with no other options, instead display information about the cache file ( `/etc/zfs/zpool.cache`). To specify the cache file to display, see -U. If specified multiple times, and a pool name is also specified display both the cached configuration and the on-disk configuration. If specified multiple times with -e also display the configuration that would be used were the pool to be imported.
-d
	Display information about datasets. Specified once, displays basic dataset information: ID, create transaction, size, and object count. See -N for determining if [poolname[/dataset \| objset ID]] is to use the specified [dataset \| objset ID] as a string (dataset name) or a number (objset ID) when datasets have numeric names. If specified multiple times provides greater and greater verbosity. If object IDs or object ID ranges are specified, display information about those specific objects or ranges only. An object ID range is specified in terms of a colon-separated tuple of the form <start >:<end >[:<flags >]. The fields start and end are integer object identifiers that denote the upper and lower bounds of the range. An end value of -1 specifies a range with no upper bound. The flags field optionally specifies a set of flags, described below, that control which object types are dumped. By default, all object types are dumped. A minus sign (-) negates the effect of the flag that follows it and has no effect unless preceded by the A flag. For example, the range 0:-1:A-d will dump all object types except for directories.
A	Dump all objects (this is the default)
d	Dump ZFS directory objects
f	Dump ZFS plain file objects
m	Dump SPA space map objects
z	Dump ZAP objects
-	Negate the effect of next flag

-D	Display deduplication statistics, including the deduplication ratio ( dedup), compression ratio ( compress), inflation due to the zfs copies property ( copies), and an overall effective ratio ( dedup * compress / copies).
-DD	Display a histogram of deduplication statistics, showing the allocated (physically present on disk) and referenced (logically referenced in the pool) block counts and sizes by reference count.
-DDD	Display the statistics independently for each deduplication table.
-DDDD	Dump the contents of the deduplication tables describing duplicate blocks.
-DDDDD	Also dump the contents of the deduplication tables describing unique blocks.
-E word0 :word1:â¦:word15	Decode and display block from an embedded block pointer specified by the word arguments.
-h	Display pool history similar to zpool, but include internal changes, transaction, and dataset information.
-i	Display information about intent log (ZIL) entries relating to each dataset. If specified multiple times, display counts of each intent log transaction type.
-k	Examine the checkpointed state of the pool. Note, the on disk format of the pool is not reverted to the checkpointed state.
-l device	Read the vdev labels and L2ARC header from the specified device. Fl will return 0 if valid label was found, 1 if error occurred, and 2 if no valid labels were found. The presence of L2ARC header is indicated by a specific sequence (L2ARC_DEV_HDR_MAGIC). If there is an accounting error in the size or the number of L2ARC log blocks Fl will return 1. Each unique configuration is displayed only once.
-ll device	In addition display label space usage stats. If a valid L2ARC header was found also display the properties of log blocks used for restoring L2ARC contents (persistent L2ARC).
-lll device	Display every configuration, unique or not. If a valid L2ARC header was found also display the properties of log entries in log blocks used for restoring L2ARC contents (persistent L2ARC). If the -q option is also specified, don't print the labels or the L2ARC header. If the -u option is also specified, also display the uberblocks on this device. Specify multiple times to increase verbosity.
-L	Disable leak detection and the loading of space maps. By default, zdb verifies that all non-free blocks are referenced, which can be very expensive.
-m	Display the offset, spacemap, free space of each metaslab, all the log spacemaps and their obsolete entry statistics.
-mm	Also display information about the on-disk free space histogram associated with each metaslab.
-mmm	Display the maximum contiguous free space, the in-core free space histogram, and the percentage of free space in each space map.
-mmmm	Display every spacemap record.
-M	Display the offset, spacemap, and free space of each metaslab.
-MM	Also display information about the maximum contiguous free space and the percentage of free space in each space map.
-MMM	Display every spacemap record.
-N	Same as -d but force zdb to interpret the [dataset \| objset ID] in [poolname[/dataset \| objset ID]] as a numeric objset ID.
-O dataset path	Look up the specified path inside of the dataset and display its metadata and indirect blocks. Specified path must be relative to the root of dataset. This option can be combined with -v for increasing verbosity.
-r dataset path destination	Copy the specified path inside of the dataset to the specified destination. Specified path must be relative to the root of dataset. This option can be combined with -v for increasing verbosity.
-R poolname vdev :offset :[lsize/ ]psize[:flags] Read and display a block from the specified device. By default the block is displayed as a hex dump, but see the description of the r flag, below. The block is specified in terms of a colon-separated tuple vdev (an integer vdev identifier) offset (the offset within the vdev) size (the physical size, or logical size / physical size) of the block to read and, optionally, flags (a set of flags, described below).
b offset	Print block pointer at hex offset
c	Calculate and display checksums
d	Decompress the block. Set environment variable ZDB_NO_ZLE to skip zle when guessing.
e	Byte swap the block
g	Dump gang block header
i	Dump indirect block
r	Dump raw uninterpreted block data
v	Verbose output for guessing compression algorithm

-s	Report statistics on zdb I/O. Display operation counts, bandwidth, and error counts of I/O to the pool from zdb.
-S	Simulate the effects of deduplication, constructing a DDT and then display that DDT as with -DD.
-u	Display the current uberblock.

Other options:

-A

Do not abort should any assertion fail.

-AA

Enable panic recovery, certain errors which would otherwise be fatal are demoted to warnings.

-AAA

Do not abort if asserts fail and also enable panic recovery.

-e [-p path ]â¦

Operate on an exported pool, not present in /etc/zfs/zpool.cache. The -p flag specifies the path under which devices are to be searched.

-x dumpdir

All blocks accessed will be copied to files in the specified directory. The blocks will be placed in sparse files whose name is the same as that of the file or device read. zdb can be then run on the generated files. Note that the -bbc flags are sufficient to access (and thus copy) all metadata on the pool.

-F

Attempt to make an unreadable pool readable by trying progressively older transactions.

-G

Dump the contents of the zfs_dbgmsg buffer before exiting zdb. zfs_dbgmsg is a buffer used by ZFS to dump advanced debug information.

-I inflight I/Os

Limit the number of outstanding checksum I/Os to the specified value. The default value is 200. This option affects the performance of the -c option.

-o var=value â¦

Set the given global libzpool variable to the provided value. The value must be an unsigned 32-bit integer. Currently only little-endian systems are supported to avoid accidentally setting the high 32 bits of 64-bit variables.

-P

Print numbers in an unscaled form more amenable to parsing, e.g.amp; 1000000 rather than 1M.

-t transaction

Specify the highest transaction to use when searching for uberblocks. See also the -u and -l options for a means to see the available uberblocks and their associated transaction numbers.

-U cachefile

Use a cache file other than /etc/zfs/zpool.cache.

-v

Enable verbosity. Specify multiple times for increased verbosity.

-V

Attempt verbatim import. This mimics the behavior of the kernel when loading a pool from a cachefile. Only usable with -e.

-X

Attempt "extreme" transaction rewind, that is attempt the same recovery as -F but read transactions otherwise deemed too old.

-Y

Attempt all possible combinations when reconstructing indirect split blocks. This flag disables the individual I/O deadman timer in order to allow as much time as required for the attempted reconstruction.

-y

Perform validation for livelists that are being deleted. Scans through the livelist and metaslabs, checking for duplicate entries and compares the two, checking for potential double frees. If it encounters issues, warnings will be printed, but the command will not necessarily fail.

Specifying a display option more than once enables verbosity for only that option, with more occurrences enabling more verbosity.

If no options are specified, all information about the named pool will be displayed at default verbosity.

Example 1: Display the configuration of imported pool rpool # zdb MOS Configuration: version: 28 name: 'rpool' â¦
Example 2: Display basic dataset information about rpool # zdb Dataset mos [META], ID 0, cr_txg 4, 26.9M, 1051 objects Dataset rpool/swap [ZVOL], ID 59, cr_txg 356, 486M, 2 objects â¦
Example 3: Display basic information about object 0 in rpool/export/home # zdb Dataset rpool/export/home [ZPL], ID 137, cr_txg 1546, 32K, 8 objects Object lvl iblk dblk dsize lsize %full type 0 7 16K 16K 15.0K 16K 25.00 DMU dnode
Example 4: Display the predicted effect of enabling deduplication on rpool # zdb Simulated DDT histogram: bucket allocated referenced ______ ______________________________ ______________________________ refcnt blocks LSIZE PSIZE DSIZE blocks LSIZE PSIZE DSIZE ------ ------ ----- ----- ----- ------ ----- ----- ----- 1 694K 27.1G 15.0G 15.0G 694K 27.1G 15.0G 15.0G 2 35.0K 1.33G 699M 699M 74.7K 2.79G 1.45G 1.45G â¦ dedup = 1.11, compress = 1.80, copies = 1.00, dedup * compress / copies = 2.00

Manual Pages — ZDB

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CONTENTS

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

OPTIONS

EXAMPLES

SEE ALSO

-A
	Do not abort should any assertion fail.
-AA
	Enable panic recovery, certain errors which would otherwise be fatal are demoted to warnings.
-AAA
	Do not abort if asserts fail and also enable panic recovery.
-e [-p path ]â¦
	Operate on an exported pool, not present in `/etc/zfs/zpool.cache`. The -p flag specifies the path under which devices are to be searched.
-x dumpdir
	All blocks accessed will be copied to files in the specified directory. The blocks will be placed in sparse files whose name is the same as that of the file or device read. zdb can be then run on the generated files. Note that the -bbc flags are sufficient to access (and thus copy) all metadata on the pool.
-F
	Attempt to make an unreadable pool readable by trying progressively older transactions.
-G
	Dump the contents of the zfs_dbgmsg buffer before exiting zdb. zfs_dbgmsg is a buffer used by ZFS to dump advanced debug information.
-I inflight I/Os
	Limit the number of outstanding checksum I/Os to the specified value. The default value is 200. This option affects the performance of the -c option.
-o var=value â¦
	Set the given global libzpool variable to the provided value. The value must be an unsigned 32-bit integer. Currently only little-endian systems are supported to avoid accidentally setting the high 32 bits of 64-bit variables.
-P
	Print numbers in an unscaled form more amenable to parsing, e.g.amp; 1000000 rather than 1M.
-t transaction
	Specify the highest transaction to use when searching for uberblocks. See also the -u and -l options for a means to see the available uberblocks and their associated transaction numbers.
-U cachefile
	Use a cache file other than `/etc/zfs/zpool.cache`.
-v
	Enable verbosity. Specify multiple times for increased verbosity.
-V
	Attempt verbatim import. This mimics the behavior of the kernel when loading a pool from a cachefile. Only usable with -e.
-X
	Attempt "extreme" transaction rewind, that is attempt the same recovery as -F but read transactions otherwise deemed too old.
-Y
	Attempt all possible combinations when reconstructing indirect split blocks. This flag disables the individual I/O deadman timer in order to allow as much time as required for the attempted reconstruction.
-y
	Perform validation for livelists that are being deleted. Scans through the livelist and metaslabs, checking for duplicate entries and compares the two, checking for potential double frees. If it encounters issues, warnings will be printed, but the command will not necessarily fail.